CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@sarae I don't care what they think/
I don't care what they say/
what do they know about/
this love, anyway?

Yeah totally straight she was probably just having boyfriend problems or something

@sarae I mentioned this at a party recently and I got a lot of blank stares when I said Melissa Etheridge was one of the queer trail blazers and I had to play this on the TV to be like, listen to this, this was top 40 music in your teenage world and how did you not notice it's a queer anthem?!

https://youtu.be/86xV2cI0-Bc

@sarae Just like we all owe a debt to Ellen (whatever one may think of her as a person) for being the one who broke the TV barrier, and Melissa Etheridge for breaking the music barrier, our Gus broke the winter sports barrier at the height of his career and that made it so now you can just be queerballs in winter sports and nobody cares. ️‍🥰️

@sarae And it's such a non-event that if you didn't happen to be watching it, nobody would notice I love this for us.

Will never not be my № 1 winter sports hero. I was in Miami Beach for a work thing and I'd skipped out on the afternoon session to go get some Cuban food at this pub I liked and when I saw this hit instagram I literally fell off my barstool. He was already a skier I watched closely because he's just so talented and then WHAAAAAAAAAA?!?!

#Gay #Skiing #LGBTQ

It really is amazing how soon after one athlete comes out that being queer in sport just becomes... normal. So far in the #Olympics we have a #gay speed skater, a #bi freeskier, half a dozen out #lesbian hockey players, and those are just the ones I've heard them mention on NBC.

And of course, the man who made it all possible, Gus Kenworthy ️️‍. He doesn't go till next week sometime but it will be nice to see him in one last Olympics.

#Olympics2026 #MilanoCortina2026 #Skiing #LGBTQIA